{ "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-12T08:33:38Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 18.0, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.4\n--------\nworkdir: R:\\02_PROJECTS\\02_Meta_Models_Platforms\\Ver.cy\\current\\thing-registry-backlog\nmodel: gpt-6-astra\nprovider: openai\napproval: never\nsandbox: read-only\nreasoning effort: none\nreasoning summaries: none\nsession id: 01a094bf-4ef9-70d2-abd1-6a5b20438548\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. 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context, a challenge is a participatory format that invites people to perform a specified task and share their responses, often encouraging others to participate.", "scope_statement": "This draft provisionally models challenge in INF.MED as a communicable task-and-invitation format, including its instructions, participation conditions, success criteria and circulated variants; the intended registry sense requires confirmation.", "in_scope": [ "The task presented and the invitation to attempt it", "Rules, constraints and criteria for completion or success", "Intended participants, eligibility and acceptance conditions", "Challenge wording, attribution, versions and media expressions", "Submission, evidence and assessment requirements", "Circulation conventions, including nomination and adaptation" ], "out_of_scope": [ "An obstacle or difficult situation without a communicated invitation", "The participant's actual attempt, performance or resulting work", "The organisation or event administering a competition", "A legal objection, procedural challenge or authentication exchange", "The hosting platform, recording file or physical carrier", "A particular work or publication titled Challenge" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Presents an identifiable task for someone to attempt, rather than merely describing a difficulty.", "Frames the task as an invitation or provocation to demonstrate, achieve or contribute something; an ordinary instruction need not do so.", "Can exist before anyone attempts it, so the challenge and its performances have separate identities.", "May permit independent participation without ranking entrants or awarding prizes, distinguishing it from a necessarily competitive contest.", "Can retain its task and rules across posts or recordings, while changes to those terms may create a materially different variant." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Invited task", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Skill demonstration, creative production, puzzle solving, endurance, contribution, imitation, other or unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Identifies what participants are asked to attempt and which neighbouring activity models are needed." }, { "name": "Invitation audience", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Named recipient, nominated recipients, eligible group, open audience or unspecified", "why_it_matters": "Determines who is addressed without treating exposure as acceptance." }, { "name": "Participation constraints", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Links to required or prohibited methods, resources, prerequisites and assistance", "why_it_matters": "Makes clear which attempts satisfy the stated terms." }, { "name": "Assessment mode", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Completion check, threshold, ranking, rubric, audience response, self-assessment, no assessment or unspecified", "why_it_matters": "Separates attempting, completing and winning." }, { "name": "Attempt time limit", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Duration in seconds, minutes, hours or days; distinguish absent from unknown", "why_it_matters": "Records time pressure separately from the deadline for joining or submitting." }, { "name": "Participation availability", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Announced, open, paused, closed, withdrawn, ongoing without a fixed window or unknown", "why_it_matters": "Supports decisions about whether an invitation remains actionable." }, { "name": "Challenge lineage", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Originates from, reposts, translates, adapts, supersedes or has unresolved relationship to another challenge expression", "why_it_matters": "Helps distinguish repeated circulation from changed tasks or rules." }, { "name": "Evidence requirement", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "No submission, self-report, artifact, recording, witness, instrument record, mixed or unspecified", "why_it_matters": "Determines what an assessment can establish and what participation might disclose." } ], "affordances": [ "Extract an actionable task brief while preserving ambiguous or missing terms.", "Compare challenge variants and identify changes affecting valid participation.", "Check an intended participant or proposed attempt against explicit eligibility and task constraints.", "Explain what evidence would support completion under the stated assessment method.", "Identify missing instructions, consent conditions or risk information before facilitating participation.", "Trace attribution and nomination links without treating a repost or nomination as consent." ], "agent_conduct": { "may": [ "Describe a challenge format and its origin, citing sources.", "Warn users about the risks of a dangerous challenge." ], "must_not": [ "Create or promote challenges that encourage self-harm or danger.", "Encourage children to take part in risky challenges.", "Share private videos of participants without consent.", "Spread hoax challenges that cause panic." ], "requires_human": [ "Decisions to moderate or remove challenge content." ] }, "ethics": { "considerations": [ "Some challenges have led to injury and death, often among young people.", "Charity challenges can raise money and awareness when done safely." ], "affected_parties": [ "Children and teenagers", "Participants", "Parents" ] }, "owners": { "steward": "The creator who started it; platforms answer for distribution.", "master_systems": [] }, "failure_modes_and_hazards": [ "Dangerous stunts cause injury or death.", "Peer pressure and online bullying." ], "what_it_is_for": [ "A challenge appears in media posts, community events and competitions as an invitation to attempt a specified task.", "Participants use its stated rules to compare performances and share responses that may invite further participation." ], "facets_not_applicable": { "interfaces": "No single standard or official classification applies to this participatory format independently of its activity and jurisdiction.", "recognition": "A challenge is a communicated invitation whose identity depends on meaning rather than a distinctive visual appearance." } }, "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata item Q16511806: challenge", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16511806", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "identity and sense of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api" }, { "id": "wikipedia-eo", "title": "Wikipedia (eo): Defio", "url": "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defio", "url_status": "live", "checked_by": "wikidata-api sitelink", "what_it_supports": "general description of the item" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "task-and-invitation", "name": "Task and invitation", "description": "What is being attempted, by whom, and why the communication constitutes a challenge.", "rationale": "The task and its invitation distinguish a challenge from a difficulty, instruction or record of achievement.", "layers": [ { "id": "task-framing", "name": "Task framing", "description": "The requested performance or output and its defining constraints.", "findings": [ { "id": "attemptable-task", "name": "Attemptable task", "description": "Record the requested action or output and distinguish explicit requirements from inferred expectations.", "questions": [ { "text": "What exactly is a participant invited to do or produce?", "kind": "definition", "id": "attemptable-task-q01" }, { "text": "Which methods, resources or restrictions define this task, and which are merely examples?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "attemptable-task-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "invitation-framing", "name": "Invitation framing", "description": "How the task is addressed to potential participants.", "findings": [ { "id": "address-and-acceptance", "name": "Address and acceptance", "description": "Represent the intended audience and any explicit acceptance mechanism without assuming that nomination creates an obligation.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is the challenge open to anyone, restricted to an eligible group or directed to named recipients?", "kind": "definition", "id": "address-and-acceptance-q01" }, { "text": "What action, if any, explicitly registers acceptance, and may recipients decline?", "kind": "action", "id": "address-and-acceptance-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "completion-and-assessment", "name": "Completion and assessment", "description": "The basis for judging attempts and recognising results.", "rationale": "A challenge may distinguish participation, completion, successful performance and competitive victory.", "layers": [ { "id": "success-conditions", "name": "Success conditions", "description": "The criteria and timing that make an attempt count.", "findings": [ { "id": "completion-versus-winning", "name": "Completion versus winning", "description": "Record whether results depend on completing a task, meeting a threshold or outperforming others.", "questions": [ { "text": "What separates an attempt from completion, success or a winning result?", "kind": "definition", "id": "completion-versus-winning-q01" }, { "text": "What quantities, thresholds, rubric judgments or time limits determine the result?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "completion-versus-winning-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "proof-and-judgment", "name": "Proof and judgment", "description": "Evidence expectations and authority to interpret them.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-sufficiency", "name": "Evidence sufficiency", "description": "Identify required proof, permitted editing or assistance, and who may validate a claimed result.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence must accompany a claim, and what does that evidence actually establish?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "evidence-sufficiency-q01" }, { "text": "Who assesses disputed attempts, including edited recordings, assisted work or incomplete submissions?", "kind": "action", "id": "evidence-sufficiency-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "identity-and-circulation", "name": "Identity and circulation", "description": "How a challenge persists or changes as its invitation is expressed and shared.", "rationale": "Repeated posts may express one challenge, while visually similar posts may impose different tasks or rules.", "layers": [ { "id": "challenge-and-expression", "name": "Challenge and expression", "description": "The relationship between the challenge, its wording and its media instances.", "findings": [ { "id": "variant-boundaries", "name": "Variant boundaries", "description": "Distinguish the underlying invitation from translations, recordings, reposts and substantive adaptations.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which task and rule features must remain stable for two expressions to represent the same challenge?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "variant-boundaries-q01" }, { "text": "Does this expression reproduce existing terms or change eligibility, difficulty, evidence requirements or success criteria?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "variant-boundaries-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "origin-and-transmission", "name": "Origin and transmission", "description": "Attribution and the conventions through which participation spreads.", "findings": [ { "id": "attribution-and-nomination", "name": "Attribution and nomination", "description": "Separate evidenced origin from popularity and record whether forwarding or nominating others forms part of the invitation.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence identifies the originator or earliest documented expression, and what remains uncertain?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "attribution-and-nomination-q01" }, { "text": "Are reposting, tagging or nominating others required, optional or additions made by later participants?", "kind": "definition", "id": "attribution-and-nomination-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "participation-and-permissions", "name": "Participation and permissions", "description": "When participation is available and what actions its terms permit or require.", "rationale": "Agents need to distinguish an available invitation from expired terms and understand the consequences of performing or documenting it.", "layers": [ { "id": "entry-and-withdrawal", "name": "Entry and withdrawal", "description": "Eligibility, participation windows and the handling of changed or withdrawn terms.", "findings": [ { "id": "actionable-invitation", "name": "Actionable invitation", "description": "Record current entry conditions and distinguish a circulating copy from an invitation still supported by its issuer.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which eligibility conditions and opening or closing dates apply to this version?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "actionable-invitation-q01" }, { "text": "How can participants withdraw, and what happens to existing attempts when terms change or the challenge closes?", "kind": "action", "id": "actionable-invitation-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "performance-and-disclosure", "name": "Performance and disclosure", "description": "Consequences of carrying out the task and sharing evidence.", "findings": [ { "id": "consent-and-exposure", "name": "Consent and exposure", "description": "Record stated participation safeguards and permissions for people, places and submitted material, leaving omissions explicit.", "questions": [ { "text": "What task-specific hazards, prerequisites or stopping conditions must be resolved before an agent facilitates an attempt?", "kind": "action", "id": "consent-and-exposure-q01" }, { "text": "What consent and reuse permissions cover recording, publishing or retaining evidence involving participants and bystanders?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "consent-and-exposure-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes", "name": "Check these first", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "The media-participation sense is inferred from INF.MED; the registry provides no definition that confirms it.", "The name could instead denote a particular titled work or another sense of challenge; verify the originating registry record before treating this description as authoritative.", "No identifiers, formal standards or numerical ranges are asserted from recall." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of challenge this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Dance challenge", "Fitness challenge", "Creative challenge", "Fundraising challenge" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of challenge this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Encouraging audience participation in social media content", "Promoting creative practice through shared prompts", "Organising public participation in fundraising campaigns", "Inviting users to demonstrate a skill or performance" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of challenge this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Dangerous tasks can cause injury when participants imitate them.", "Participation can expose personal information or identifiable images without adequate consent.", "Social pressure can encourage unwanted or unsafe participation.", "Reposted or edited instructions can obscure the original task or its precautions." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of challenge this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "name": "Internet meme", "difference": "A meme spreads through repetition or variation; a challenge specifically invites performance of a task." }, { "name": "Contest", "difference": "A contest evaluates participants to determine results or winners; a challenge need not involve ranking or prizes." }, { "name": "Prompt", "difference": "A prompt supplies a cue or instruction; a challenge frames a task as something participants are invited to attempt." }, { "name": "Challenge response", "difference": "A response is an individual performance or media contribution; the challenge is the shared participatory format." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of challenge this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does vr.tr.challenge denote a mediated participatory format, another sense of challenge, or a particular titled work?", "Does an existing Vercy world model already own this concept, requiring a registry link instead of a separate model?", "Which authoritative examples establish the intended boundary between challenge, prompt, dare, assignment and contest?", "Which changes to a circulated challenge constitute a new challenge rather than a version or expression?", "Are nomination, public evidence and explicit success criteria characteristic of the intended registry sense or only optional features of particular subtypes?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 9, "findings": 13, "questions": 21 } }